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<h1>CS 378:  Building Intelligent Agents</h1>

The goal of this course is to explore and understand what it is to be
an intelligent agent embedded in a physical world.  This will be a
laboratory exploration and research class, covering the topics
required to build a small autonomous robot, able to function in the
physical world.


<H2>Syllabus</H2>

 <ul>

  <li> <b><!WA0><a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kuipers/agents-syllabus.ps">
(Preliminary version)</a></b>

 </ul>

<hr>
<h2> Pointers to Useful Information </h2>

 <ul>

  <li> <!WA1><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu:4321/robotics.html">
         Robotics Internet Resources Page</a>.  (U. Mass. Amherst)  
         Many robotics pages.

  <li> <!WA2><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/comp/robotics/top.html">
         comp.robotics FAQ</a>.  Lots of valuable information about robotics.

  <li> <!WA3><a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kuipers/ntopics.ps">
       Robotics references</a> 

  <li> <em>Intelligent Agents</em>, special issue of <cite>CACM</cite>, July 1994. <P>

  <li> <!WA4><a href="http://tommy.jsc.nasa.gov/~korten/competition96.html">AAAI-96 Robot Competition</a>.


  <li> <!WA5><a href="http://www.newtonlabs.com/">Newton Research Labs</a>.
MIT spinoff:  IC and vision.  <p>

  <li> <!WA6><a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaame/pic/MCFAQ.TXT">
       Microcontroller FAQ</a>

  <li> <!WA7><a href="http://www.parallaxinc.com/stamp/index.htm">
       BASIC Stamp</a>, Parallax, Inc.

  <li> <!WA8><a href="http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/gps/gps.html">
       GPS (Global Positioning System) Overview</a>

 </ul>

<h4>Assistive Technology</h4>

 <ul>

  <li>  <!WA9><a href="http://call-centre.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/CALLResearch/Wheelchair/CALLSmartWheelchairs">
        Smart Wheelchairs</a>.  (A project of the University of Edinburgh,
        <!WA10><a href="http://call-centre.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/CallHome">CALL Centre</a>.)

  <li>  <!WA11><a href="http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/www2bonsai/PRT/pro/omni/omni-eng.html">
        Omnidirectional Wheelchair</a>, Hagen University, Germany.

  <li>  <!WA12><a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/CS/wheelesley.html">
        Wheelesley semi-autonomous wheelchair</a>, Wellesley College.

  <li>  <!WA13><a href="http://www.quickiedesigns.com/">Quickie Wheelchairs</a>.
        <!WA14><a href="http://www.quickiedesigns.com/casemgrs/program.htm">
        Programming wheelchair parameters:  v and a</a>.

  <li>  <!WA15><a href="http://members.aol.com/timbarrett/homepage.htm">Rehab Designs</a>.
        Engineering with wheelchairs and computers.

  <li>  <!WA16><a href="http://www.bme.med.ualberta.ca/BJA_work.html">
        Rehabilitation Engineering (U. Alberta)</a>.  Direct neural stimulation of muscles.

  <li>  <!WA17><a href="http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/Research/Robotics/svr_robotics_research.html">
        Cambridge University Robotics Language (CURL)</a>, applications for the disabled.

  <li>  <!WA18><a href="http://ftb.informatik.uni-essen.de/ftb-home.html">
        Das Forschungsinstitut Technologie-Behindertenhilfe (FTB)</a>
        (German research on wheelchairs and other AT.)

  <li>  <!WA19><a href="http://www.asel.udel.edu/at-online/assistive.html">
        Assistive Technology On-Line</a>, U. Delaware.

  <li>  <!WA20><a href="http://www.oslo.sintef.no/avd/32/3270/brosjyrer/engelsk/5a.html">
        SINTEF (Norway) wheelchair + arm + navigation</a>.

  <li>  <!WA21><a href="http://www.tno.nl/instit/tpd/m3s/m3s/m3s.html">
        M3S (Multiple Master Multiple Slave) bus for assistive technology devices</a>.

  <li>  <!WA22><a href="http://www.asel.udel.edu/at-online/technology/robotics/robot_chart.html">
        Wheelchair-mounted manipulators, list of</a>, U. Delaware, AT-online.

  <li>  <!WA23><a href="http://www.teamrehab.com/">TeamRehab</a>.  Industry magazine.

  <li>  <!WA24><a href="http://www.nchrtm.okstate.edu/index_low.htm">National Clearinghouse of
        Rehabilitation Training Materials</a>, Oklahoma State University.  Excellent
        index to online resources.

  <li>  <!WA25><a href="http://disability.com/">Evan Kemp Associates, Inc</a>.  Disability 
        resources, products, and services.

  <li>  <!WA26><a href="http://www.bruno.com/links.html">Links re mobility and access</a>
        (from Bruno Corp.)  Fair index to resources.

  <li>  <!WA27><a href="http://info.hhsc.state.tx.us/">Texas Rehabilitation Commission</a>, 
        Austin, Texas.

 </ul>



<h4>Electronic Parts (local)</h4>

 <ul>

  <li> <B>Altex Electronics</B>  <br>
10705 Metric Boulevard   <br>
Austin, Texas 78758  <br>
832-9131  <p>

  <li> <B>Tinkertronics</B>  <br>
1133 Airport Boulevard  <br>
Austin, Texas 78702  <br>
926-4420  <br>
926-1703 (BBS line)  <p>

 </ul>




<h4>Lego/6.270 robots</h4>


 <ul>

  <li> <!WA28><a href="ftp://cher.media.mit.edu/pub/">MIT Media Lab ftp site</a>.
       Source for the Lego robotics hardware and software.

  <li> <!WA29><a href="http://web.mit.edu/6.270/www/home.html">MIT 6.270 Course Page</a>

  <li> <!WA30><a href="ftp://cher.media.mit.edu/pub/projects/6270/interactive-c/docs/cables.doc">How to make cables</a>
   
  <li> <!WA31><a href="http://legowww.homepages.com">LEGO homepage</A> (includes good pointers).

  <li> <!WA32><a href="news:rec.toys.lego">rec.toys.lego newsgroup</A>.

  <li> <!WA33><a href="http://legowww.homepages.com/faq/FAQ.html">rec.toys.lego FAQ</A> <P>

  <li> <!WA34><a href="http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/handy-board/">Handy Board</a>
  <li> <!WA35><a href="http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/handy-board/hbexp20b/index.htm">HB Expansion Board</a>
  <li> <!WA36><a href="http://www.tiac.net/users/gleason/handy-board">Handy Board supplier</a>
  <li> <!WA37><a href="http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/handy-board/mailarc.txt">Handy Board discussion list archive</a>  <p>
  <li> <!WA38><a href="http://www.avatartech.com/tstuff/">Techno-Stuff</a> (Austin, TX).  Lego animation.
 </ul>

<h4>Small mobile robots</h4>

 <ul>

  <li> <!WA39><a href="http://www.activmedia.com/RealWorld/RobotHome.html">
       RWI Pioneer Robot</a> (our Tommy)

  <li> <!WA40><a href="http://www.ai.sri.com/people/erratic/">
       SRI's ERRATIC robot</a> (predecessor to the RWI Pioneer)

  <li> <!WA41><a href="http://lamihp1.epfl.ch/Khepera/">Khepera robot</a>.

 </ul>

<h4>Large mobile robots</h4>

 <ul>

  <li> <!WA42><a href="http://www.rwii.com">Real World Interfaces, Inc.</a>

 </ul>

<H2>People and Research Groups</H2>


 <ul>

  <li> <!WA43><a href="http://cs-www.uchicago.edu:80/~firby/">
       Jim Firby's Robotics Group at U. Chicago</a>

  <li> <!WA44><a href="http://logic.stanford.edu/cs222/index.html">
       Mike Genesereth's CS 222:  Autonomous Systems</A>, Stanford CS.

  <li> <!WA45><a href="http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk:5000/home.html">
       Oxford University</a>

  <li> <!WA46><a href="http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/projects/aibots/index.html">
       Barbara Hayes-Roth</A>:  Adaptive Intelligent Systems, Stanford KSL.

  <li> <!WA47><a href="http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/">
         Robotics at JPL</a> (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).

  <li> <!WA48><a href="http://robotics.stanford.edu/groups/latombe/home.html">
       Jean-Claude Latombe's Research Groups</A>, Stanford CS.

  <li> <!WA49><a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/home-page.html">
       MIT AI Lab, Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project</a>.

  <li> <!WA50><a href="http://rd.cs.colorado.edu/harvest/">
       Harvest Information Discovery Tools (U. Colorado).</a>

  <li> <!WA51><A HREF="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/softbots/www/softbots.html">
       Internet Softbots, Oren Etzioni and Dan Weld</A>, University of Washington.

  <li> <!WA52><a href="http://lenti.med.umn.edu/~mwd/robot/robot-course.html">
       Mark Dalton's robot course plans</A>

  <li> <!WA53><a href="http://robotics.stanford.edu/people/yamauchi/bio.html">
       Brian Yamauchi at Stanford</a>
 </ul>

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<address><!WA54><a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kuipers">BJK</a></address>


